About Me

Hi, my name is Pauline and I live in Hampshire with my wonderful husband Paul and two gorgeous sons, Matt (20) a budding musician and Laurence (18) who knows everything there is to know about pop music.
I have been making cards for about four years now, I also enjoy making jewellery and home furnishings. I grow fruit and veg in a large greenhouse and on an allotment.
I have created this blog to share my love of crafting and to enter challenges, please have a look at my creations and feel free to leave any comments, they will be greatly appreciated.
Come back soon.

Wednesday, December 7, 2016

Good Morning, welcome to The Paper Shelter Blog Hop, it is in celebration of their 6th Birthday on December 8th. It will be a two week Challenge and both Design Teams are taking part.

The Hop is our way of inviting you to join in with us and this one is A Special Birthday theme. If you have landed here from Audrey then you're heading in the right direction - if not then you'll want to head on back to The Paper Shelter Challenge Blog to start again, you'll not want to miss out on this one! Our Design Teams have worked very hard and are showcasing some of the gorgeous images that are available from The Paper Shelter Website and each blog on the hop is offering one lucky commenter a digi of their choice as well as the main prize, details of which are on The Paper Shelter Challenge Blog.

This is the card that I have created, it is for a special friend of our family - my eldest son is teaching her to play the guitar so I thought this image called Melody would be perfect.

I have used the Composition and printed it several times so that I could fussy cut some decoupage layers.

I also used the matching Background Paper to decorate the inside of my card.

From here you will need to hop on over to Colette, don't forget to leave a comment for a chance of winning your choice of one of the fab digis available in store.

Tuesday, December 6, 2016

This is one of the projects that I created for the Die-cutting Essentials Special Edition, I was commissioned to create five projects for the magazine using the free 6-in-1 build-a-tree die set and 8 co-ordinating stamps.

I decided to create a contemporary Christmas Wreath using the Christmas tree die and the Christmas tree garland stamp.

The papers are from the docrafts Papermania Capsule Geometric Mocha paper pad, I adhered them to some card stock before die cutting the trees.

It looks much better in real life!

Thank you for visiting my blog today, your company is much appreciated.

Monday, December 5, 2016

This is another of the cards that was published in last months edition of Simply Cards & Papercraft, I was commissioned to create six projects using the fabulous Fireside Christmas Collection from NitWit Collections.

I love the colours in this collection, there are some wonderful verses and sentiments as well.

I printed the white poinsettias several times so that I could fussy cut them and layer them up.

Thank you for visiting my blog today, please leave a comment so that I can come and visit you.

Thank you for popping in today, don't forget to take a look at the Di's Digi Designs Challenge blog to check out the fabulous DT inspiration and join in with our Traditional Christmas Colours challenge.